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about one of the key dates in Scottish
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when tourists come in Scotland the
churches that they flock to arson John's
Cathedral and Rosslyn Chapel no both are
fantastic but if you're talking Scottish
history then this is a place to be this
is a John's cuck and my hometown of Pam
it's the most prominent building in
parent it's the oldest building in
parent indeed it's from this building
that the ten previously got his name of
st. John's tune our football team still
called sin Johnson
now let me tell you why it's not only
the most significant church in path but
possibly the most significant church in
Scotland know if you're wondering why
and attain what people don't go to
church anymore but who watch Netflix
that's even relevant then give me ten
minutes your time and it'll be clear
sorry about that I had to deal with the
skeptics okay so we need to talk about
John Norris now when you think about
John Norris you probably think about a
big beardy blood and thunder
misogynistic what old changing Mary
Queen of Scots hate and preach again it
was actually much more than that he was
a schoolteacher bodyguard galley slave
rioter politician and he had an English
accent ah he didn't see that coming did
you
if you got any other dirty secrets about
John Knox and please feel free to put
them in the comment section below now in
the 21st century that our John Knox
Presbyterian churches around the world
so why is this church so important it's
because of events that happened and this
day in Scottish history no we were a
background to the Scottish Reformation
I suppose you could see there all
started with an English invasion
I knew they'd be through this enemy beer
with me haha you thought it was me it
was my reflection so you probably all
know that James v of Scotland died 60s
after the birth of his only daughter
Mary Queen of Scots
well even his wife Mary Dickies a widow
then the baby is great Uncle Henry the
Eighth wanted her to marry his son our
cousin Edward in Scotland at the time
there were two opposing factions a
Protestant sympathizing pro English
group and a Catholic simple surprising
true friendship and with a pro French
group in ascendancy it was agreed that
Mary would go off and marry the do found
of France
well Henry knee went mental and he
invaded Scotland to get me to marry his
son I thought if you know this Henry was
an ancestor of Harvey Weinstein this
period in Scotland is called the rough
wooing and during this period the
English occupied areas of law in
Scotland and they started to distribute
Bibles and Protestant literature because
the English had already become
Protestant so that Henry could marry
Anne Boleyn
in the meantime French troops occupied
Edinburgh to defend against the English
know the tension between the French
troops and ordinary Scots will become a
problem later at the time Catholic
priests were rubbish and people weren't
attended mass that made for fruitful
ground for the reform of a few
Protestant martyrs later we ended up
with an event and st. Andrews that I
hope to cover in a week or two this have
been late John Knox Benton came as a
galley slave then studying John Calvin
and Switzerland
but for this point no he was back
now for reformist preachers north the
path and Dundy Angus in King Cotton Shan
had been summoned to trial and sterling
the reason over Easter that administered
the sacrament and a man are not approved
by the Catholic Church probably they've
done in English rather than one because
you know how much God hates that now the
trial was set for the tenth of me John
Norris had landed back in Scotland and
leaf on the second of me screamin
serendipitous sacrilege Batman you know
there's gonna be trouble a bunch of
Protestants headed towards Dublin for
the trial but they stopped here in pair
the pair was a walled city in fact these
here are the last remnants of those city
walls across the road from Perth Museum
effectively this energised Protestant
world came to pass ready for a siege and
when the accused didn't turn up for
trial and Stirling they were outlawed
news of this got back to pass on this
day and Scottish yesterday as Jordan
Hobbs preached a sermon on idolatry and
the cleansing of the temple and said
Jones Kirk
now when he finished a Catholic priest
unveiled an Ordnung altar in order to
take months a young lad uttered an
exclamation of indignation uttered an
exclamation of indignation no jokin
well the priest had the boy with a stick
the boy threw a stone at the priest all
hell broke loose the mob tore down and
smashed all the statutes they spilled
out of this door and sacked the
monasteries and pear this spread across
Central Scotland the Protestants who
occupied Paris negotiated sister Marie
De Gea's who was obviously acting as
regent for our daughter Mary Queen of
Scots
but when French troops remember them end
of the 10th it made things worse there
were more confrontations in maneuverings
Marie fortuitously dying and the Lord's
the Protestant Lords the congregation
took over just over a year after the
sermon he and Scotland was officially a
Protestant country now John knows what a
school and every party so the painters
and players could learn to read the
Bible together Scotland became the
world's flushed illiterate country this
led to the Scottish enlightenment
Adam Smith brought the foundations of
modern economic theory the capitalist
system in which we currently live David
Hume brought the foundations of modern
philosophy and his ideas fed the
American Revolution because of the
educated literate nature of the Scottish
population that they disproportionately
administered the British Eng and a
quarter of the world's population Scots
invented or discovered the telephone
television penicillin and many other
things that are essential parts of
everyday life today the new Presbyterian
Church created the necessary information
issued that's right I used that word
issued top during governance and
insisted that the ministers who led the
charge and the elders who administer the
church were elected
yes that's right modern-day democracy
for our folks and we have many Scotland
built the modern world
and it started this well I hope you
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more importantly why not treat yourself
to a do n path yeah
you can spend a bit attainments in
joints Kirk it's open to the public
during the summertime and it's local
volunteer so that staff it and you could
just make a volunteer donation in the
box as you leave after that why not
because it's a stone's throw from sin
joints Kirk to the river T that flows
through PR you can walk up little party
along through the North inches I'm doing
just now so lovely we do spend a bit of
time on an HD after that and the way
back there's a lovely tea room in the
High Street called reads crispy bacon
rolls and cream scones lovely I'll leave
the information and a link below and the
afternoon close to there you could go to
the museum remember where we we're just
next to the remnants the city walls and
spend a bit of time in the museum and
then you can go up to a hunting terror
castle used to be called rudran castle
was involved in the read of reven where
basically some Protestants didn't think
Scotland was Protestant enough and they
kidnapped James the sixth I'll probably
do a video boater
at some point in the future you can also
take a boat trip along the river of T
and wee bit further down the river
that'll put the link pool don't you want
it and I'll also put links to Google
Maps both by car from Edinburgh or
from the train station it'll all be in
the links below obviously me 2020 is not
the ideal time for doing this when
everything's better
always check the details that everyone's
still open etcetera etcetera if in don't
why not hire a surrogate I mean doctors
can be a lie my life Chilean grass there